Selected Papers

COHN, Ruth C.

Published by The author, [No place], 1980

About this Item

First edition. Quarto. 217pp. Perfectbound blue wrappers. Wrappers with some tanning, a bit of light creasing, and a tiny cover stain, very good or better. Inscribed to another female psychologist, Vivian Guze, on the title page: "To Vivian with all my love Ruth Oct 12th 80" (the author has also written "Viv" on the cover). Laid in is a copy of one of Cohn's poems ("The We in the I"), also warmly Inscribed: "To my only littler sister and to my only real friend in the US - To Love- IS and never to forget. To Vivian forever, Ruth. Oct 22nd 80." A self-published collection of papers and reflections, according to a printed introductory letter, seemingly published to be distributed to friends and colleagues at the 1980 conference of the American Academy of Psychotherapists (of which Vivian Guze's husband was a cofounder). Ruth Cohn was a noted German-born psychotherapist best known as the creator of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI), a method of group learning. (The Ruth Cohn Institute for TCI International is today headquartered in Basel.) Cohn left Germany in 1933 and, as a German Jew, lost her German citizenship in 1936. Cohn immigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and returned to Europe (Switzerland) in 1974. She writes in the introductory letter to this volume: "T.C.I. germinated in my experience of the Nazi holocaust and its apathetic surroundings. I longed as a student of psychoanalysis for therapeutic ways which would not limit progress in awareness and communication to patients and some eager students but would spread to the population at large - so 'it would never happen again.'" The book contains four sections: The Theme-Centered Interactional Approach; Group Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy; and Personal Reflections. An important collection of psychological work with a lovely association. *OCLC* locates no copies, nor does it seem to locate any English-language monographs published by Cohn. Seller Inventory # 468881

Bibliographic Details

Title: Selected Papers

Publisher: The author, [No place]

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition